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  2. 1-Phenyl-4-benzoyl-1H-1,2,3-triazoles as orally bioavailable transcriptional function suppressors of estrogen-related receptor α

1-Phenyl-4-benzoyl-1H-1,2,3-triazoles as orally bioavailable transcriptional function suppressors of estrogen-related receptor α

  • J Med Chem. 2013 Jun 13;56(11):4631-40. doi: 10.1021/jm4003928.
Shilin Xu 1 Xiaoxi Zhuang Xiaofen Pan Zhang Zhang Lei Duan Yingxue Liu Lianwen Zhang Xiaomei Ren Ke Ding
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Affiliation

  • 1 Institute of Chemical Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 190 Kaiyuan Avenue, Guangzhou 510530, China.
Abstract

Estrogen-related receptor α is a potential candidate target for therapeutic treatment of breast Cancer. We describe the discovery and structure-activity relationship study of a series of 1-phenyl-4-benzoyl-1H-1,2,3-triazoles as novel suppressors of ERRα transcriptional functions. The most promising compound, 2-aminophenyl-(1-(3-isopropylphenyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)methanone (14n), potently suppressed the transcriptional functions of ERRα with IC50 = 0.021 μM in a cell-based reporter gene assay and also decreased both the mRNA levels and the protein levels of ERRα and the downstream targets. This compound inhibited the proliferation and migration of breast Cancer cells with high level of ERRα. Preliminary pharmacokinetic studies suggested that it possessed a good pharmacokinetic profile with an oral bioavailability of 71.8%. The compounds may serve as novel small molecule probes for further validation of ERRα as a molecular target for Anticancer drug development.

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